Documentation

Official documentation

• Pgpool-II
  • Pgpool-II manual (English)
  • Pgpool-II manual (Japanese)

• pgpoolAdmin
  • pgpoolAdmin manual (English)
  • pgpoolAdmin manual (Japanese)

User contributed documentation

• Documentation
  • Gerd Koenig's "pgpool-II for beginners" (English)
  • What is pgpool-II (Japanese)
  • Creating a replication system using pgpool-II (Japanese)
  • Making master/slave systems work better with pgpool-II (English, PDF)
  • Relationship between max_pool, num_init_children, and max_connections(English, 2012/8/25)
  • New features of pgpool-II, multifunctional middleware for PostgreSQL (Japanese, PDF)
  • Construct scale out configuration with PostgreSQL (Japanese, PDF)
  • Let's try pgpool-II easy setup function (Japanese)
  • About pgpool-II 3.3 watchdog (Japanese)
  • Improvements of connection performance in pgpool-II (Japanese)
  • Construct high-availability, high-performance system with pgpool-II (Japanese, PDF)

• Tutorials of pgpool-II 3.6
  • Basic Configuration Example
    • English (2017/10/25) Japanese (2017/10/25)
  • Watchdog:
    • Basic: English (2017/10/25) Japanese (2017/10/25)
    • master-slave mode: English (2017/10/25) Japanese (2017/10/25)
  • AWS Configuration Example
    • English (2017/10/25) Japanese (2017/10/25)

• Tutorials of Streaming Replication with pgpool-II (Obsolete)
  • Simple Streaming replication setting with pgpool-II
    • For pgpool-II 3.1 and PostgreSQL 9.1: English (2012/01/31) Japanese (2012/6/1)
    • For pgpool-II 3.0 and PostgreSQL 9.0: English Japanese
  • multiple server version
    • For pgpool-II 3.3 and PostgreSQL 9.3: English (2014/04/07) Japanese (2014/04/07)
    • For pgpool-II 3.1 and PostgreSQL 9.1: English (2012/01/31) Japanese (2012/6/1)
    • For pgpool-II 3.0 and PostgreSQL 9.0: English Japanese

• Tutorials of pgpool-II 3.3 (Obsolete)
  • Watchdog:
    • master-slave mode: English (2014/04/07) Japanese (2014/04/07)

• Tutorials of pgpool-II 3.2 (Obsolete)
  • On memory query cache: English (2012/07/20) Japanese (2012/07/20)
  • Watchdog:
    • Basic: English (2012/07/20) Japanese (2012/07/20)
    • master-slave mode: English (2012/10/22) Japanese (2012/10/15)

Developer's documentation

• 3rd Postgres Cluster Hackers Summit, pgCon 2012 "pgpool-II Development Status Updates" (English, PDF)
• 4th Postgres Cluster Hackers Summit, pgCon 2013 "pgpool-II Development Status Updates" (English, PDF)
• 5th Postgres Cluster Hackers Summit, pgCon 2014 "pgpool-II Development Status Updates" (English, PDF)
• 6th Postgres Cluster Hackers Summit, pgCon 2015 "pgpool-II Development Status Updates" (English, PDF)
• 6th Postgres Cluster Hackers Summit, pgCon 2015 "pgpool-II 3.5 How it will look like?" (English, PDF)
• pgpool-II 3.5 new features (English, Wiki)
• "How to manage a herd of elephants: Introducing new features of pgpool-II 3.5" at "PostgreSQL Conference China 2015" (English, PDF)
• "How to manage a herd of elephants: PostgreSQL clusters using streaming replication and pgpool-II" at "PGConf.Russia 2016" (English, PDF)
• "Pgpool-II: Past, Present and Future" at PGConf.ASIA 2016 : English (2016/12/07), Japanese (2016/12/07)

Blog posts by pgpool developers

• Setting up everything at one time
• pgpool-II 3.3 alpha1 is out!
• pgpool-II + now()
• Pgpool-II talk at PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012